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SmartAgriHubs & Gender Equality

SmartAgriHubs is an https://www.smartagrihubs.eu/ inclusive and exponential Agri-digital community and network building, showcasing Agri-digital innovation which leads to more sustainable and competitive European agriculture. Complete their survey about Gender balance in SmartAgriHubs ecosystems.Read more

OPEN CALL: EIP-AGRI workshop Farm data for better farm performance

Farmers, young farmers, advisors, partners in Operational Groups and technology developers involved who have experience in designing and/or implementing innovative digital technological and farm data-based solutions, apply to the call for expression of interest by 29 October 2021Read more

OPEN CALL: EIP-AGRI Seminar 'Turning forest innovation into practice'

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) and the Support Facility 'Innovation & Knowledge exchange | EIP-AGRI' are organising the EIP-AGRI Seminar ‘Turning forest innovation into...Read more

Sneak preview: New EIP-AGRI Focus Groups

New Focus Groups will begin at the start of 2022 on the following topics: Fruit tree pests and diseases : New ways to deal with fruit tree pests and diseases,...Read more

Participate in upcoming EIP-AGRI events

Foresty seminar – 24-25 November 2021 Knowledge exchange, cooperation, education, training and advice can unlock the socio-economic and environmental potential of forests for EU rural areas. This seminar aims to...Read more

Multi-actor project on mixed farming

MIXED is a Horizon 2020 multi-actor project supporting the development of European mixed farming and agroforestry systems. Project coordinator Tommy Dalgaard tells us, “Mixed systems optimise efficiency and resource use,...Read more

World Food Day 2021

World Food Day 2021 is on 16 October. It strives to achieve a sustainable agri-food system in which a variety of sufficient, nutritious and safe foods is available at an...Read more

VIDEO Agroecology in France

Farmer testimonial - agroecology in France (from Interreg NWE project FABulous Farmers ) Video of Farmer testimonials France - Towards a FABulous CAPRead more

New Latvian translation of EIP-AGRI AKIS video

The EIP-AGRI video on Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) is now available in Latvian (as well as Albanian, Slovak, Bulgarian and Romanian). This animated video explains what AKIS is...Read more

Galician innovation days – project matchmaking event

An online international matchmaking event will take place from 25-29 October, focussing on the new Horizon Europe calls. It will bring together companies, researchers, universities, investors, and consulting firms across...Read more

Toolbox for agricultural monitoring

The DIONE Toolbox proposes innovative solutions for smart agricultural monitoring for farmers and for European Paying Agencies. It includes improved crop-type maps, automated non-productive Ecological focus areas recognition, an environmental...Read more

Share your stories of innovation in agriculture

Climate change is a real threat to our food systems, destroying natural resources, widening economic and health inequalities and shortening food supplies. The #ClimateShot Global Action Agenda for Innovation in...Read more

Open call for digital innovation services providers

SmartAgriHubs offers funding to digital innovation services providers. This includes the overall lifecyle for developing, setting-up, offering, providing, testing, validating, refining as well as enhancing services for Digital Transformation and...Read more

Organic Innovation Days: Better inputs for organic farming

TP Organics’ (Technology Platform) annual public event will take place online on 30 November and 1 December 2021. This year’s event partners with European research projects RELACS and Organic-PLUS and...Read more

Competition – Farming by satellite

The myEUspace competition will give prizes (up to 65,000€) to teams which have developped innovative commercial solutions that use EU Space data from Galileo and/or Copernicus. One of the 6...Read more

Inspirational ideas: Organic growers harvest ancient grain varieties

This inspirational idea is also available in a Slovak version. Translation courtesy of the National Rural Network Slovakia . Read more EIP-AGRI inspirational ideas in Slovak on the NRN website...Read more

Inspirational ideas: Mobile professor

This inspirational idea is also available in a Slovak version. Translation courtesy of the National Rural Network Slovakia . Read more EIP-AGRI inspirational ideas in Slovak on the NRN website...Read more

Subgroup on innovation

The 19th meeting of the permanent Subgroup on Innovation for agricultural productivity and sustainability was held online on Thursday 23 September 2021. On the agenda: presentations on past and upcoming...Read more

Farm to Fork 2021 Conference

Building sustainable food systems together The European Commission's Farm to Fork 2021 Conference will take place online on 14 and 15 October 2021. Unfortunately, the registration is closed as the...Read more

Launch of EU mission: Soil Deal for Europe

The EU Commission has just launched five new EU missions , one of them is the "Soil deal for Europe". Missions are a new collaborative approach designed to tackle some...Read more

Unlocking the potential of working in partnership for innovation

Interested in unlocking the potential of working in partnership for innovation? Join the online conference of the LIAISON project from 30 September to 1 October 2021 to learn more about...Read more

EIP-AGRI seminar: CAP Strategic Plans: the key role of AKIS in Member States

EIP-AGRI online seminar ‘CAP Strategic Plans: the key role of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) in Member States’ took place on 16-18 September 2020. The aim was to support...Read more

VIDEO H2020 i2connect project

Connecting advisers through AKIS to boost interactive innovation in agriculture & forestry Video of The i2connect project: Connecting advisers to boost interactive innovation in agriculture & forestryRead more

Inspirational ideas: An innovative participatory approach to hill sheep health

Hill Sheep Health North project was set up to develop an innovative participatory approach for hill sheep farmers in the UK to address a hill sheep disease of particular concern – liver fluke infection or fasciolosis.Read more

Inspirational ideas: Growing organic vegetables – and jobs!

The Operational Group Biogemüse in Northern Hesse (Germany) identified a growing demand for fresh organic vegetables, but there was a lack of local produce available. At the same time the rural population was falling steadily and there was a low number of jobs which affected vulnerable population groups in particular.Read more

Climate Smart Agriculture

STARGATE Horizon 2020 multi-actor project is about making farming more resilient in a changing climate. It will test a specific Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) methodology that will help farmers and...Read more

New EU forest strategy for 2030

This strategy is one of the flagship initiatives of the European Green Deal and builds on the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030. The EU forest strategy sets out concrete actions...Read more

Webinar recordings ‘Preparing the CAP Strategic Plans’ available

The European Commission - DG Agriculture and Rural Development organised a series of one-day online webinars between 3-10 June to provide guidance for the innovation strand of the future CAP...Read more

Sustainable beef webinar

The BovINE Horizon 2020 thematic network will be joined by experts from the EIP-AGRI Sustainable Beef Focus Group for a webinar on 27 Sept 2021 “Sustainable beef: what is the...Read more

Experiences from 20 Multi-Actor Platforms

The recently published SHERPA (H2020 multi-actor project) report overviews the experiences of 20 Multi-Actor Platforms (MAP) which were set up by the project. It presents ways to engage science, society...Read more

1st calls for Horizon Europe - apply by 6 October

Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation. It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and...Read more

Nitrate and pesticide measures and DSS tools

Horizon 2020 multi-actor project FAirWAY is holding an online event on 22/09/2021 to demonstrate measures and DSS (Decision Support Systems) tools which are available to reduce diffuse pollution of nitrogen...Read more

Database for German Operational Groups now online

There is a new German NRN homepage which contains a database for Operational Groups (OG) in Germany. You can find summaries of the OGs in English, with further information available...Read more

Call for expression of interest: evidence-informed policy

The European Commission has launched a call to gather ideas on how to advance evidence-informed policy at regional and local level through co-creation and networking. Regions and cities in the...Read more

Networking activity of EU projects - Joining efforts and ideas to improve education in agriculture

On Monday the 28 th of June, INNOSETA is hosting a networking event for EU projects . “Joining efforts and ideas to improve education in agriculture” Coordinators from thematic networks,...Read more

2021 EU Conference on modelling for policy support: Call for abstracts

Reminder: call for abstracts open until 30 June The Competence Centre on Modelling of the European Commission is organising the 2021 EU Conference on modelling for policy support . The...Read more

Public consultation on the preparation of the Data Act

Public consultation on the preparation of the Data Act & amended rules on the legal protection of databases from 03 June 2021 till 03 September 2021 ( midnight Brussels time...Read more

EIP-AGRI video gallery

Check out the videos produced by the EIP-AGRI Service Point. The video gallery includes thematic videos such as AKIS - Building effective knowledge flows across Europe, Reducing the plastic footprint...Read more

Inspirational ideas: Added value for agriculture and nature

This inspirational idea is also available in a Slovak version. Translation courtesy of the National Rural Network Slovakia . Read more EIP-AGRI inspirational ideas in Slovak on the NRN website...Read more

Inspirational ideas: A precision approach to predicting potato tuber growth

Grampian Growers Tuberzone project is a Scottish Operational Group addressing the benefits of using precision technology to optimise the value of seed potato cropsRead more

Reaping the benefits of healthy soils, for food, people, nature and the climate

Soil is the foundation of our lives. Soil services are essential for the provision of food through agriculture, energy and raw materials, carbon sequestration, water purification, nutrient regulation, biodiversity preservation...Read more

Report 'Towards carbon neutral agriculture’

The EIP-AGRI online workshop on 24-25 March 2021 was all about sharing ideas on the optimisation of carbon balance in European farming systems. The report from this event has now...Read more

Results from EIP-AGRI seminar Healthy soils for Europe

Over 140 participants joined the online EIP-AGRI seminar ` Healthy soils for Europe: sustainable management through knowledge and practice ’ 13-14 April 2021. This interactive event was dedicated to exchanging...Read more

Competition for European startups in agtech and foodtech

The THRIVE Europe Challenge is a competition to recognise and promote key startups in the agrifood sector. The startups should propose solutions to solve problems of the European agrifood industry...Read more

Video ‘scribing’: #3 Seed systems

2-minute videos presenting key concepts of low-input agriculture from the Dynaversity H2020 project. Video #3 is on Seed systems and it tackles “What is a seed system? Which is the...Read more

Podcasts about the CAP

The European Commission’s DG AGRI has produced a regular podcast called ‘Food for Europe’. It brings you stories, analysis, and in-depth interviews on agriculture, rural development, and the developments that...Read more

Report on IPM and the new CAP

A new report published by the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) aims to present to policy makers, civil servants and the farming community across Europe how agricultural systems can reduce reliance...Read more

Citizens to shape the future of the EU

As from 19 April, through a new multilingual digital platform, citizens from across Europe have the possibility to provide their views on any topic that they consider important for the...Read more

Discover the EU Soil Observatory

The EU Soil Observatory (EUSO) is a new platform that aims to support policy making by providing soil knowledge and data flows needed to safeguard soils, supporting EU Research &...Read more

Social economy and social innovation as a motor of rural resilience

Join this workshop on 27/05/2021 15:00-16:30 to learn about inspiring examples of how Member States, managing authorities and local businesses are improving rural life thanks to social innovation. The workshop...Read more

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